The Princess Bride

Will be on view Tuesday July 1st, in Penrose 107, 6-9 in the international cinema class. The class starts at 6, the teacher, Erin Moran usually starts with an intro and some questions for the class to think about so come a little late or wait outside until the lights turn off.

I Heart Photograph

This is a great site. Updated daily! Lots of artist's links.

Check it out.

www.iheartphotograph.com

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois @ the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
June 27-September 28, 2008

Overview

Louise Bourgeois is a full-career retrospective of one of the most important artists of our time. This exhibition, which will fill the entire Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda and one adjacent gallery, will be the most comprehensive examination to date of Bourgeois’s long and distinguished career.

Born almost a century ago, Louise Bourgeois has remained steadfastly at the vanguard of the development of contemporary art for more than 70 years, and continues to create new bodies of work with characteristic energy and restless innovation. Throughout a career that has intersected with many of the leading avant-garde movements of the 20th century, including Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Post-Minimalism, she has remained resolutely committed to a singular creative vision. Although her oeuvre includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and performance, Bourgeois is best known for her sculptures, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and across a diverse array of mediums including wood, bronze, latex, marble, and fabric. Moving freely between abstraction and figuration, she has developed a richly symbolic visual idiom that encompasses totemic forms, ambiguously gendered anatomical fragments, and towering spiders, as well as the assemblages of found objects that are encased in her environmental-scale installations. These images powerfully articulate the psychological imperatives that drive her artistic process, based in large part on memories of a troubled childhood in France and her subsequent struggle to find personal equilibrium throughout her adult life. Louise Bourgeois presents a nuanced exploration of the artist’s distinctive iconography and major themes, in an installation that evokes both an intensely individualized process of introspection, and the universal complexities of the human experience.

This exhibition is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in association with Tate Modern, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

The Leadership Committee for Louise Bourgeois, with founding gifts from John Cheim and Howard Read, Karsten Greve, and Iwan Wirth, is gratefully acknowledged.

Image: Le Défi, 1991. Painted wood, glass, and electrical light, 67 1/2 x 58 x 26 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 91.3903. © Louise Bourgeois/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

There is also a new movie out on her, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine.

summer slow down.

So lately all of the posts have been calls for work or upcoming events. A lot of the events are Philadelphia related but not necessarily Tyler Grad related or even art related... Any grads have some good stories or pictures to show?

I have been in class all summer long so far weaving weird small tapestry/mixed media things. If you are bored of this blog, look at my website. The news section is updated so you can mark your calendars. Also, all of the names on the right are website links so you can go get ready to crit the newbies work by reading their statements and such.

Or one of the 07 photography grad alum Ivette Spradlin just contacted me to add her site to the alumni list and her work is interesting. I like the anything web project, its nothing containable as in I dont really understand what im looking at. If they are photographs, animations, or things that exist digitally only. I think the images even move.

I hope everyone is having a fun summer!

R5 Punk Rock Flea Market

PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET!!
Saturday June 28th 10:00am to 5:00pm

At The Starlight Ballroom
460 North 9th Street (Just Below 9th & Spring Garden)
Philadelphia, PA
$3 Entry Donation Please
All Ages / 21+ To Drink

I went last year and its packed with goods, like so much so its hard to walk, not just punk rock items but also homemade accessories and handprined t-shirts. It also has lots of stuff, like garage sale style used items, record stores bring records, etc. Its an awesome event, proceeds go to R5 to keep shows happening in Philadelphia. Shows = music in this case not art.

R5 Productions is a local d.i.y. music promoter place, it lists music events that are happening in the city and even includes samples of the music if you aren't familiar with it. Philadelphia has one extensive music scene, from house shows to huge venues that ill probably never afford to the Church, which has shows about once a week if not more. With bands coming in from all over the world. One of my favorite parts about living in Philadelphia is seeing live good music very often at affordable prices.

I recommend not going alone, or else park as close as possible to the Ballroom. You can pay the guys to park your car in the lot, but its really just a scam. They keep an eye on your car though so thats good. I usually park my car on Spring Garden and walk quickly. Last year one of the guys in Project Runway was selling his stuff here, it was kind of funny and stood out as the only really "nice" things.

Breaking the Waves - Lars von Trier

Will be on view Thursday June 26th, in Penrose 107, 6-9 in the international cinema class. The class starts at 6, the teacher, Erin Moran usually starts with an intro and some questions for the class to think about so come a little late or wait outside until the lights turn off.

So, apparently, there is a new skatepark in the works for Center City, Philadelphia. A replacement for the Love park, park. Though most skateboarders know of FDR which is at Broad and Pattison Avenues, under 95. But anyways, this new fetus of a skatepark is having a fun raiser that includes very cool art and live music.

The Party: Paine's World
Celebrate and Support Paine's Park Project, a movement to build a 2.5 acre skatepark in Center City Philadelphia.

LOTS OF ART AND MUSIC!!

June 28, 9pm-1am

@ the Urban Outfitters Facility
The Naval Yard

Building 543
5102 s. 16th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19912

*Buy Tickets Online Here for $22*
or at Urban Outfitters University City, or Walnut Street location for $20

Manayunk Arts Festival

Next weekend in Manayunk.

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 11am-8pm
Sunday, June 29th, 2008, 11am-6pm

At the corner of Shurs Lane and Cresson.

Call for Photography: July 1st Deadline!

Photographers working in all styles, in traditional or digital formats, are invited to enter up to two of their photographic images for the international juried photography exhibition Glimpses in Time. The top award recipient will receive a solo exhibition at the Joyce Gordon Gallery. Entry forms and submission guidelines can be found at: www.joycegordonphotographygallery.com.

Steven Wirtz, owner of the prestigious Steven Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, will be the sole juror. Opening in 1972, the Steven Wirtz Gallery has become one of the most established galleries in California, with a strong focus on photography.

Visit us at www.joycegordonphotographygallery.com to obtain the submission instructions.

Sotto Voce magazine is looking for submissions from artists and photographers for our first issue, slated for publication this fall. The submissions deadline is August 20, 2008.

Their submission guidelines and a form for submitting work can be found here.

Sotto Voce are looking for unpublished, original artwork (drawings, painting, illustrations) and photography.

Although this is their first issue, they are paying $10 or more (based on budget) per piece, and rates will increase every issue.

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New application guidelines for the 2008 Professional Development Fellowship Program are now available on the CAA website. This year, application forms and requirements for both the visual-art and art-history fellowships have changed in order to facilitate the review process. Submission of material by all applicants must now be sent on CD or DVD; slides, videocassettes, and some paperwork in hard copy are not accepted.

CAA awards fellowships in the amount of $15,000 to qualified graduate students in visual art and art history. In addition, one or more fellowships are awarded to a PhD student specializing in American art; this award is made possible with support from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. As in the past, honorable mentions may also be recognized.

The main purpose of the fellowship program is to support outstanding graduate students from diverse backgrounds who may have been underrepresented in their fields. By offering financial assistance to promising MFA and PhD students, CAA can assist the rising generation during this important transitional period in their lives.

Unlike previous years in which CAA fellowships were awarded in two parts—$5,000 to fellows at the outset and $10,000 to an employer upon recipients securing a professional position (with a two-to-one matching requirement)—fellows are now honored with a one-time grant of $15,000 to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for their job-search expenses or purchasing materials for their studio.

Go to www.collegeart.org/fellowships to download the applications, which have specific requirements; published below are general guidelines.

Art-History Fellowships

Applicants to the art-history fellowships must include the following on a CD: application form; essay; CV; dissertation prospectus; sample dissertation chapter; and timetable for dissertation completion. Letters of recommendation; a copy of your 2007 IRS income-tax form or 2008 Free Application for Student Federal Aid (FASFA); and graduate transcript must be submitted in hard copy and mailed to CAA with the CD.

The application deadline is October 1, 2008. Fellows are chosen by December 31, 2008.

Visual-Art Fellowships

Visual-art fellowship applicants must include the following on CD or DVD: application form; essay; résumé or CV; description of your MFA exhibition and its timetable; all visual documentation (up to six images of your work, properly labeled and formatted for both PC and Macintosh); and image script (caption list and short descriptions of the work). Letters of recommendation; a copy of your 2007 IRS income-tax form or 2008 Free Application for Student Federal Aid (FASFA); and graduate transcript must be submitted in hard copy and mailed to CAA with the CD or DVD.

The application deadline is October 1, 2008. Fellows are chosen by December 31, 2008.

A FLY EVENT